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The Mystery of Jesus
Aired December 25, 2013 - 18:00 ET
(BEGIN VIDEO) LIAM NEESON, NARRATOR, "THE MYSTERY OF JESUS": Nearly 2,000 years ago, historians tell us, in a remote outpost of the Roman empire, three men were crucified on a hill. Two of the men were thieves. The third man's crime was marked by the sign nailed to his cross. "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews." Jesus himself insisted his throne was in heaven, not of this world. But that didn't matter, the Romans saw him as a political nuisance. To his fellow Jews, he was just another failed Messiah. No one even thought to record his death. The story of Jesus has transcended generations and cultures. The tale of a routine execution that gave birth to a new religion. Yet, from that unlikely beginning, a great faith was born. And today, some two billion people believe Jesus was the Son of God. But even as billions of people pledge themselves to follow Jesus' teachings, we have known almost nothing about Jesus the man. No other great religious figure, from Moses to the Buddha to the Prophet Mohammed, is so shrouded in mystery. AMY-JILL LEVINE, PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: It's very difficult to classify Jesus within a single category, whether he was a sage or a healer or a teacher or a charismatic figure. And I suspect the most accurate response to the question, who was Jesus at the time, would be a mixture of all of these different identifications. NEESON: The startling discovery of what some claim to be the burial box of Jesus' brother James, reopened the biggest detective story of all time -- the mystery of Jesus, the man. The plain limestone container, called an ossuary, is inscribed with a tantalizing clue in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." The public was enthralled. From people who flock to see the ossuary on display, to Biblical scholars around the world. Could this be the first physical evidence that Jesus walked the earth? So when the Israeli authorities alleged eight months after its discovery that the ossuary's inscription was forged, the centuries-old quest for the historical Jesus became ever more urgent. Did he have a real brother? Was Mary really a virgin? How did Jesus live, and why did he have to die? Who was Jesus the man? Why is the greatest story ever told also the greatest mystery never solved? Almost all we know about Jesus' life comes to us from the four books of the Gospels called Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. Yet the Gospels were written anywhere between 40 and 70 years after Jesus died, and with an eye to converting people. DR. BART EHRMAN, CHAIR OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: The Gospels weren't meant to be historically accurate accounts in the way we would think of. They weren't written according to our standards of biographical accuracy. They were meant to proclaim the good news of Jesus' life, death and resurrection. NEESON: One of the stories that historians are debating is the Christmas card scene of his humble birth in a manger, heralded by a star in the east and attended by three wise men. It's only mentioned by Matthew and Luke, and they don't always agree. So, is any of it true? Scholars say yes -- to a degree. DR. CLAIRE PFANN, PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY LAND, JERUSALEM: When we look at the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke, we can see that there are about 12 pieces of information, 12 facts, that they share in common, that they both know about Jesus' early years. They both know that his mother is Mary, that the father or step- father is Joseph, that they're from the family of David, that the birth took place in Bethlehem. So they have this string, a skeleton of information about the very formative years of Jesus and his conception. But they don't have much beyond that. NEESON: Sadly, the birthplace of the man Christians call the Prince of Peace is often a war zone, as it has been for centuries, from the Romans to the Crusaders to the present-day clash between Israelis and Palestinians. But the manger that generations of pilgrims have sought out is a bit of a shock -- a stone grotto that doesn't look much like a cozy stable. Caves like this one pockmark the region where Bethlehem lies. But one scholar suggests that we've got the wrong address. There is another Bethlehem, one that borders Joseph and Mary's home territory of Nazareth. BRUCE CHILTON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED THEOLOGY, BARD COLLEGE: That suggests to me that this is the Bethlehem that we ought to be looking at, instead of Bethlehem of Judea. NEESON: It is unlikely that this argument is going to trump the centuries of tradition that point to the Bethlehem of faith. REV. THOMAS FITZPATRICK, DIRECTOR, PONTIFICAL BIBLICAL INSTITUTE, JERUSALEM: It is a historical place, revered for centuries by the faithful. It is the place where it is celebrated Jesus was born. That's enough for me in my devotion. It's not enough for me and -- as a scientist. NEESON: And what of the other great tradition of the first Christmas, the star in the east? Was it a myth? Or did it really exist? Astronomer Michael Molnar may have found the answer on a 2,000- year- old coin he bought a few years ago for $50. On one side Molnar noticed the astrological sign for Aries, which stood for Judea in ancient astrology. On the other side was the god Jupiter. MICHAEL MOLNAR, ASTRONOMER & AUTHOR, "THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM": When I came across the coin that showed me that Aries the ram was the sign of the Jews, and I asked myself, well, what event would have happened in Aries the ram? NEESON: So, armed with a computer and charts of the ancient heavens, Molnar started plotting the course of Jupiter in the constellation of Aries around the time of Jesus' birth. And he suddenly hit the mother of all celestial alignments. MOLNAR: According to the beliefs of 2,000 years ago, if you have the sun, Jupiter and moon, accompanied by Saturn, in the sign of Aries the ram, this created the conditions for the birth of a divine and immortal person. NEESON: If there was a star in the east, that would have been it. Just when, exactly, did this star appear? Molnar did some more calculations. MOLNAR: The computer came back with only one answer. It said it happened only once in Aries the ram. That was April 17th, 6 B.C. NEESON: Christmas in April? Jesus born six years before we thought? It's likely true, since King Herod, who went on a murderous rampage when he heard of Jesus' birth, died in 4 B.C. But after his birth, Jesus largely disappears from view, and the mysteries of his early life deepen. Who were Jesus' parents? His brothers and sisters? Just how did Jesus grow up? LEVINE: Jesus was probably doing what most other teenagers were doing -- honing their job skills, meeting other people, helping to support the family, learning what he could about his community and his tradition. NEESON: His tradition was Jewish, and his community was the village of Nazareth in rural Galilee. Just as the ancient prophets had said, the Messiah would be a Nazarene. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) NEESON: Nazareth in the first century was just a small town in rural Galilee, a world away from cosmopolitan Jerusalem 100 miles down the road. Yet it was here, the Gospel of St. Luke tells us, that an angel of the Lord appeared to Mary and told her something extraordinary. She was going to be the mother of God's son. But what do we know about this woman who would change the course of history? REV. N. THOMAS WRIGHT, BISHOP OF DURHAM, CHURCH OF ENGLAND: We don't know very much about Mary. We get little tantalizing snapshots. And from those tantalizing snapshots, she appears to be a lively, intelligent, but basically down-to-earth woman. NEESON: And maybe not a woman at all when she bore Jesus, but a girl with a remarkable life ahead of her. PFANN: Mary was very young when she became pregnant with Jesus. She was probably just in her mid-teens, which meant that by the time Jesus was doing his public ministry, maybe she was 45. NEESON: Joseph, Jesus' earthly father, is perhaps the most mysterious figure of all. By the time Jesus has begun his public ministry, Joseph has vanished from the story. That has led to speculation that Joseph, a carpenter by trade, was many years older than Mary. Life in the Nazareth of Jesus' day was hard. Today, a group of Biblical scholars and archeologists have built Nazareth village, to give a better sense of just what daily life in the Nazareth of Jesus' time was like. EHRMAN: There were no paved streets. There were no luxuries of any kind. The houses are made of field stones that are insulated with mud and straw. It was a very basic kind of hand-to-mouth existence. NEESON: It was also an existence that closely followed the rituals of Jewish life. In fact, the only time the Gospels mention Jesus as a boy is during a visit to the temple in Jerusalem. This visit would have made an enormous impression on a devout 12-year- old from the hinterland. WRIGHT: Jerusalem was the place where, particularly at festival times, people always hoped that maybe, now, God was going to do something dramatic. And that sort of sense is in the air that you get there and it's going to happen. The new thing is going to be born. PFANN: Jesus sat with the teachers of the law, the great rabbis, the ones who ran the academies in Jerusalem, and had deep, detailed discussions about the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, with them. And these teachers and rabbis looked at this kid and said, this kid has a real gift. We should sign him up. Let's get him to enroll. He's wasted up there in Nazareth. NEESON: It was a mission, the Gospels say, that Jesus thought more important than his earthly family. For when they had departed for Nazareth, Jesus was still in the temple. LEVINE: And on the way home, Mary and Joseph suddenly realized, after a few days, that Jesus is missing. This always struck me as somewhat like "Home Alone." And they come back and they discover him in the temple. And Mary is very upset and says, how could you do this? PFANN: Jesus, in his 12-year-old, know-it-all state says, "Well, didn't you know, I needed to be about my father's business?" And he understands that his destiny is somehow here. The temple is where he belongs. Discussing these religious issues is what he is supposed to do. NEESON: How could Mary and Joseph fail to notice Jesus was missing? Did this mean that the family was so large that a child like Jesus could just disappear? The Gospels speak of Jesus' four brothers -- James, Josephs, Judas and Simon -- and at least two sisters. But many believed that Mary remained a virgin all her life, and that these siblings were either stepchildren from Joseph's earlier marriage, or cousins. Scholars who have read the texts closely say that doesn't seem to be the case, and they don't need the controversial ossuary to make their point. EHRMAN: The word that's used of James and Jesus' other siblings, the Greek word for brother, is the word for brother. Some people thought, well maybe they're cousins, for example. Well, there is a Greek word for cousin, and that's not the word that's used here. NEESON: The theological questions are profound, and the debate is a difficult one, especially if you're a Jesuit and a scientist, like Tom Fitzpatrick. FITZPATRICK: I don't know if we're ever going to get to a definitive answer that satisfies every question or every person on this. It's been a very important doctrine, a mystery for the church, over 2,000 years. It's not the most important doctrine. NEESON: Just as fascinating as Jesus' family tree is the debate over just what Jesus looked like. This certainly isn't a matter of doctrine, but it has always been a source of intense speculation. The centuries-old guessing game that science tells us is way off the mark. RICHARD NEAVE, MEDICAL & FORENSIC ARTIST: I could never reconcile myself to him having long, blond hair and blue eyes, because he comes from a part of the world where people are basically rather swarthy, with dark hair and dark eyes. NEESON: So, what then does science say is the true face of the Son of God? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, I'm Fredricka Whitfield in Atlanta, at the CNN headquarters. Now in the news, much of the country, digging out from under a deep blanket of snow and ice. But brace yourself, more snow is expected tonight. Roads and airports already snarled with holiday travelers. And utility workers are busy across New England trying to get the power back on before the next storm hit. And you can expect a big U.S. military buildup in Afghanistan next year. That according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen. Visiting Kabul today, Mullen said between 20 and 30,000 more U.S. troops could be in Afghanistan by summer to counter the growing Taliban threat. President-elect Barack Obama is working with congressional Democrats to get the economy moving again. They set Christmas as the unofficial deadline to come up with a list of spending projects. Vice president-elect Joe Biden predicts the plan will cost about $700 billion over two years. And if you're going to Barack Obama's inauguration, here are security rules you need to know. Strollers will not be allowed near the U.S. Capitol. No Tents on the National Mall. Chairs, a big no-no along the parade route. Also leave thermoses, coolers and backpacks at home. They won't be allowed at the Capitol or along the parade route. Coming up in the CNN NEWSROOM, the question many women are asking, and some men, too. Who's making Michelle Obama's inaugural gown? Top designers are clamoring for the job. We'll reveal some details for you at the top of the hour. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Those are the headlines. "CNN PRESENTS: THE MYSTERY OF JESUS" continues. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) NEESON: Trying to figure out what Jesus really looked like has preoccupied Christians for centuries. And legions of artists have stayed busy trying to supply the answer. But the difficulty in trying to flesh out the image of Jesus is that his contemporaries considered his message, not his looks, all important. Also, Judaism forbids the worship of images and idols, especially of someone claiming to be God. Of course, that did not stop Christians from imagining how Jesus looked. He was first depicted as a triumphant sun god, like Apollo. Since then, Jesus has been re-imagined by every generation. And movies have never tired of portraying him, from "Jesus Christ Superstar" to the brooding artist in "Jesus of Montreal," to the smiling Buddy Christ of the film "Dogma." LEVINE: Jesus is not, as far as I can tell historically, the blond, blue-eyed, Max von Sydow version, or even Jeffrey Hunter, who we get from the movies. FITZPATRICK: I think that he would have looked very much like what we know by the term "hippies." NEESON: Now we may be able to literally put some flesh on the bones of centuries of guessing. That's what the noted medical and forensic artist Richard Neave did when Biblical scholars gave him a copy of a skull from the first century, found in present-day Israel. They wanted to get an idea of what a man of Jesus' time and place might have looked like. NEAVE: It's a strong skull. And to live satisfactorily, especially the kind of life that Jesus led, you're going to have to be a fairly tough, rugged kind of fellow. You know, he walked miles. He carried his staff. He could be flogged. He could carry his cross. I mean, you know, that takes a lot of physical strength and determination. And so, he's not a wimp. NEESON: Neave has spent nearly 30 years reconstructing the heads of mystery people -- anonymous murder victims, ancient archeological finds and suicides. But how would he approach a recreation of a face from 2,000 years ago? NEAVE: It's done in exactly the same way as you would handle a forensic case. There's absolutely no difference, except that in this case, a nice, clean, prepared cast, rather than the original skull. Then you make a copy of that, and that's mounted onto a metal stand. Pegs are inserted into the skull at specific anatomical points. And these indicate the average thickness of tissue that you're going to get, say, there or there or there. NEESON: Neave's skull was rendered into an image by the BBC, and further developed by the artist Donato Giancola, with the help of Neave and Biblical scholars. The result is a startling image -- nothing like the Jesus that history has imagined. NEAVE: The nose is quite prominent, and a full mouth, a youngish face, between 30 and 40, I suppose. NEESON: Neave stresses that his Jesus head is not "the" Jesus head. At best, it represents a face that Jesus himself might have seen or had. And still it attracts debate. NEAVE: I've had one or two comments from people suggesting that it doesn't look anything like Jesus, which of course doesn't surprise me. They actually -- some of them do go on to say that they know exactly what Jesus does look like, because they took a photograph of him only three weeks ago. NEESON: Even though science has given us a better idea of what Jesus might have really looked like, Jesus' face wouldn't matter were it not for what he said and what he did, and, the Gospels tell us, in a surprisingly short time -- just three years. What was the message of this carpenter's son from Galilee? And why did it get him killed? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) NEESON: When Jesus suddenly reemerged into the public eye, so the Gospels tell us, he was about 30-years-old. And he had a powerful mission: to rock the ancient world with his teachings. His public ministry would last just three years. But in that brief span, this obscure Galilean (ph) carpenter would rouse such passion, that his followers would call him not just The Son of Man, but the Son of God. So who was Jesus? A faith healer? A rebel? A messiah? DR. BART EHRMAN, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: Some scholars think that he was principally to be understood as a Jewish Rabbi. Some think that he was better understood as a social revolutionary, or even a political revolutionary. Some people think that he was an ancient philosopher, a Jewish philosopher. And probably the majority of scholars continue to think that he was best understood as a kind of Jewish apocalyptic prophet. NEESON: But Jesus the prophet was not alone in his search for souls to save. Scholars tell us the landscape was teeming with Jewish groups, each with there own take on God's word. One such sect, the Essings (ph), were Apocalyptic Jews who lived in the dessert by the Dead Sea. When their writings were discovered in the caves of Kumron (ph) in 1948, we suddenly gained startling new clues about Jesus' own spiritual roots. DR. CLAIRE PFANN, UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY LAND, JERUSALEM: We have from Kumron just a small bit of a manuscript that shows us that there were other Jews, just before the time of Jesus, who were waiting for a Messiah, who would exert miraculous and healing power, and who would also have the power to raise the dead. And Jesus embraces that messianic expectation. NEESON: And it began with a baptism, as the Gospels tell us, performed by the man who tradition and scholarship say was Jesus' cousin, and boyhood friend. John the Baptist lived in the wilderness wearing camel skins, eating locusts, and wild honey, and baptizing people in the Jordan River to cleanse them of their sins. This was a radical new spin on the Jewish purification bath. John was turning an ancient ritual into a new sacrament. PFANN: John the Baptist, he recognized Jesus at the baptism. And he said, this is the man I've been waiting for. This is the person I am preparing the way for. And he expected Jesus to be the Messiah of Israel. NEESON: And that's the message Jesus took to the Jewish people. The Gospels tell us he returned home, found his first disciples among Galilean fishermen. And soon, he called attention to himself by casting out demons, and healing the sick. DR. AMY-JILL LEVINE, VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: Those healings would have attracted greater and greater crowds. And those crowds then would have provided the base for Jesus' other teachings. Was Jesus a healer and an exorcist? I think so, quite a good one in fact. NEESON: A healer, an exorcist, and soon a miracle worker. According to the Gospel of John, Jesus' first big public miracle was at the wedding at Kana, turning water into wine, and saving his friend's party. Science can never say whether a miracle really happened. But scholars say there would be no mistaking the message that Jesus was sending. LEVINE: In turning water to wine at the wedding of Kana, he is saying, I am the bride-groom of the great Messianic banquet that God is going to have one day. And the bride-groom has arrived on the scene. NEESON: The miracles kept coming, the loaves and fish, raising Lazarus from the dead, walking on water, and repelling Satan. But magicians and healers and exorcists were everywhere in the Middle East in those days. LEVINE: We have various accounts of miracle workers, both Pagan as well as Jewish, in the first century. The book of Acts presents, for example, other exorcists who were not part of Jesus' contingent, but they do seem to be successful exorcists. REV. N.T. WRIGHT, BISHOP OF DURHAM, CHURCH OF ENGLAND: We can put Jesus on a continuum of other healers, but he still breaks the mold. He does more than they do and more frequently. NEESON: And more than miracles, Jesus reached beyond social boundaries to include woman prominently among his disciples. One woman who followed Jesus has become second only to his mother in the story of his life. Yet Mary Magdolin has not exactly been regarded as a virgin. LEVINE: Christian tradition depicts Mary Magdolin as a prostitute. But she's never called a prostitute in the New Testament, or indeed in the first couple of centuries of Christianity. The most we know about her is that she is independent. Luke tells us that she was possessed by seven demons, and had been exorcized by Jesus. So perhaps she followed him because he had performed a healing for her. Other than that, Mary is in independent woman. Prostitute? No reason to think so. NEESON: But what was she to Jesus? Could Jesus have been married to Mary Magdolin, as some legends have it? Or to anyone else? LEVINE: We have no indication in the Gospel tradition that Jesus is married. Would it have been unusual for a Jewish man to have been unmarried? No, not at all. NEESON: Whatever the details of Jesus' personal life, to his fellow Jews what he said was as important as what he did. He gave them a radical agenda, scholars say, one in which society's outcasts could play a central role. Its manifesto promised that the powerful will be brought low, and the meek would inherit the earth. The Sermon on the Mount was an edgy message at a volatile time. WRIGHT: The thought of Jesus going up into the hills with his followers, and giving them special teaching has a kind of a revolutionary flavor to it. My goodness, we're being prepared to do something. This is not just some lessons that will help us say our prayers a bit better, though it will. It will go much more than that. It's setting an agenda for a whole movement, and how it is going to go. NEESON: The Gospels tell us that Jesus as the Messiah had healed Japeel (ph) for the masses. Here, finally, was someone who could liberate the Jews from a century of Roman rule. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jews in particular thought that this land that they occupied had been given to them by God. The idea that some other power was controlling this land was considered not only to be a political nightmare, it was also thought to be theologically blasphemous. LEVINE: And if Jesus is preaching the Kingdom of God, he is clearly preaching something antithetical to the Normative Kingdom, which is the Kingdom of Rome. NEESON: And if that wasn't enough, the Gospels tell us, Jesus then took his disciples and his message to Jerusalem, the heart of Judaism, and of Roman political power. The fuse was primed. The people wanted a savior. PFANN: And as they sit here on this mount of olives, where we are today, they say OK, now are you going to set up the kingdom? We are waiting. We want to rule. NEESON: And then, no sooner had Jesus ministry begun, it was over. Jesus was now reviled as a common criminal, deserted by the people who had once hailed him as the Messiah. Was it prophecy or politics that set Jesus out to die? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (WEATHER REPORT) NEESON: Jesus came back to Jerusalem, the Gospels tell us, during Passover. As a devout Jew, he had been to the Great Temple many times before with his family. But now he came at a politically charged time, with a provocative message. LEVINE: Passover is the feast of freedom. The city has swelled with well over a million pilgrims. There is a concern for Roman occupation. Pilot has brought his troops into the city. Anybody who talks about the Kingdom of God, and even more, anybody about whom the word goes out, this is a new king, is clearly a political liability. NEESON: And not just a liability to the Romans, but to the Jewish Hierarchy, led by their high priest, Ciaiphus (ph). In one of the most vivid passages in the Gospels, a furious Jesus enters the temple to cleanse it of the many changers he finds there. PFANN: Overturning the temple tables, of the money changers, and all of the offerings that were being sold, which was the necessary business of temple work, was a direct prophetic assault on the religious institution. In a way he was saying that a new era was beginning. This was about as much as the religious authorities could take. And they put together a plot to turn him over to the Romans. NEESON: But first Jesus would fulfill the ritual duties of his religion and eat the Passover seder with his friends, a meal known today as the Last Supper. WRIGHT: According to our earliest accounts, he knew that he was in trouble and was likely to be arrested. And so he took these symbolic foods of the Passover meal, and installed new significance in them. NEESON: It is a communion recreated today in churches everywhere. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is my body, which will be given up for you. WRIGHT: It's difficult to know if he actually said these things. Our reports are decades later. But I think he certainly had a last supper. And he may well have anticipated that he was going to be killed soon thereafter. NEESON: And according to the Gospels, that's exactly what happened. Betrayed among the olive trees in the garden of Giseminy (ph) by his own disciple, Judas Hiscariot (ph). Throughout Christian history, Judas has been made the art villain in Jesus' death. Yet, just what did this trusted disciple betray? EHRMAN: It's possible that Jesus taught the disciples privately that when the Kingdom comes, you will be the rulers, and I, of course, will be the King of this coming kingdom. If that's what he was teaching them, then everything else falls in place. What Judas portrays to the authorities is that Jesus was teaching this in private. The authorities used it as a charge to bring to Pontius Pilot. NEESON: Pontius Pilot was the Roman Governor of Judea, who had power of life and death over his Jewish subjects, and often used it. REV. BRUCE CHILTON: Pontius Pilot, the very year that Jesus entered into Jerusalem, was in a very difficult political position. And as a consequence of that, he agreed to help Ciaiphus, and to pin the whole blame for what had occurred within the temple, a disturbance there involving Jesus, on Jesus himself. NEESON: Scholars think that the most accurate part of the Gospels comes here at the end, the eyewitness details of his death by crucifixion, perhaps the most gruesome form of capital punishment ever devised. CHILTON: It was a case of a state organized around the principal of terror. And you pointed this terror at anyone who was seen as posing a threat or posing a potential threat. That certainly applied in the case of Jesus. NEESON: And to many others. The Romans crucified up to 10,000 people during Jesus' lifetime, often people just like himself. EHRMAN: It wasn't unusual at all to have somebody, even a prophet, arrested, and executed. Even in the Gospels, he's killed with two other people that morning. Probably they too were troublemakers. And the next day, Pilot probably ordered a couple of other people killed. NEESON: The crucifixion has always been depicted as an awful death. Modern forensic science tells us that it was even worse than we imagined. After three decades as a medical examiner in New York, Dr. Frederic Zuggerby (ph) has investigated hundreds of homicides. But his research into death by crucifixion is as chilling as anything he has ever seen. A death that began with a ferocious scourging by Roman soldiers using a metal tipped whip. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The bits of metal would literally enter the skin, even up to the front of the body. The weight would carry it to the front and rip, rip blood vessels, skin. The pains were literally brutal. NEESON: Zuggerby says his agony was compounded when Jesus was then forced to carry the 50-pound cross beam out of Pilot's fortress, and through these streets of Jerusalem, today called the Via De la Rosa, "the Way of Sorrows." UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the condition that Jesus was in at this time, the shocking condition which is now being built up, the crowning of thorns adding more shock, Jesus would be stumbling. He would be unsteady on his feet. He would fall. He would get up, fall. NEESON: Finally, Jesus arrived at a hill outside the city walls called Gargotha (ph), which means the place of the skull, a site that today is covered by the ornate church of the Holy Sepulcar. In Jesus' day, this holy place was a killing field, where a team of Roman soldiers awaited their victim, and quickly set about their grizzly task. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The members of it would hold their legs across their body, their arms, while they nailed the nails into their hands. NEESON: Though some victims lasted a week, Zuggerby calculates that Jesus spent about six hours on the cross. Then it was finished. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I were to write a death certificate, I would say the cause of death was due to shock, which causes cardiogenic shock, or the failure of the heart as a pump. And that would be the cause of death. NEESON: While politics has a hand in Jesus' death, scholars say so too did prophecy. They note that Jesus' followers believed the prophecies of ancient scripture, that a political Messiah, a glorious Earthly king, would come to free them from Rome. But Jesus had a new prophecy, one that was very different from what they had expected. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He begins to teach them that the Messiah must suffer and die, and that he would go up to Jerusalem. He would be tortured. He would be beaten. He would be crucified. He would die. And he would rise again. This was not an expectation that they had for the Messiah. NEESON: So, the Gospels say, when the disciples showed up at Jesus' tomb three days after his death, and found it empty, they were astonished. Jesus said he would rise from the dead. Had his prophecy been fulfilled? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) NEESON: Christianity's defining moment came three days after Jesus' death, when the Gospels tell us he rose from the tomb, and appeared to his downcast followers. In fact, scholars believed the Gospels were written backwards, starting with Jesus' death, because those were that facts that the apostles knew the best, and the facts that launched their faith. EHRMAN: What makes Jesus different isn't that his message was different. What makes him different is that after he was executed, his followers claimed that he was raised from the dead. Christianity begins when Jesus' followers proclaim his resurrection. NEESON: But the resurrection is also the point where science stops and faith begins. Skeptics have explained the resurrection as a mass hallucination, or as a tale told to comfort Jesus' followers. But none of those theories explain the mystery of faith. WRIGHT: The belief that dead people don't rise was absolutely universal across the whole ancient world, with the exception of the Jews, who said that, at the moment, dead people don't rise, but one day there will be a resurrection, either of all the righteous, or possibly of everybody. The best historical explanation for the rise of the early Christian movement is that Jesus really was raised from the dead on the third day. NEESON: While science may not explanation the resurrection of Jesus, it can illuminate his life, even to believers. REV FITZPATRICK: I'm one of those persons, anyway. Look at the secular world and say, there's wonderful things going on there. And they can be a help to us, even talking about who Jesus is. Good, let's recognize that. Let ourselves be tested by the world. We can only be helped. WRIGHT: Bring in as much of the other evidence as you can, the (UNINTELLIGIBLE), coins, archaeological data. Let's do the history thing properly. And then this figure emerges in three dimensions. And we say, my goodness, this is not just a religious icon. It is not just a wild-eyed revolutionary. It is somebody who is all of that, and much, much more. And he's enormously compelling. NEESON: Perhaps more compelling in today's world, where religion more often than not seems to be a source of conflict. PFANN: Jesus as a historical figure provides no appointed dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, because the Islamic world excepts him as a prophet. The Christian world excepts him as Son of God. And clearly, he was a Jew. We will not agree, from synagogue to church to mosque, on what he represents. But at least we all have some claim upon him, and that's the basis of conversation. NEESON: So historians will continue to dig for clues in the dust of the Holy Land, sifting through new evidence, and reexamining the old, all to capture the essence of this Jewish rabbi who so changed the world. And faithful Christians will continue to rely on Jesus' own words to doubting Thomas, words that define the mystery of faith: "blessed are those who have not seen, and yet believe."


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Carrie Underwood Gets Introduction From Space Before Festival Performance
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Country artists have played via satellite before, but never like this. Carrie Underwood's Saturday (Aug. 3) set at WE Fest in Detroit Lakes, Minn. was preceded by an introduction from the International Space Station. Astronaut Karen Nyberg had the honor, and did so without the assistance of gravity.
Nyberg floats effortlessly in this short video. She's stable until the very end, when she purposely spins around, having fun in her space module. The shoutout from 255 miles above Earth was about the only thing that could have topped one of country music's biggest superstars playing for 47,000 fans.
It likely wasn't difficult to convince Nyberg to do the job. She's a big fan of the singer and of WE Fest, having grown up in nearby Vining, Minn. Kellie Pickler, Darius Rucker and Kenny Rogers also played the country music festival over the weekend.


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B&C Honey Farm LLC
Wheatfield, IN
Currently booked for balance of 2007.
Happy to discuss 2008 options.
Fees vary by crop. No mileage fee within 25 miles of zip 46392.
Contract required. Minimum 16 hives.
Strong hives. Dependable beekeeper.
email: [email protected]
cell phone: 219-730-1824
Thank you.
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Green's Honey Farm
Matt, Rachel, Dylan, and Isabell Green
711 Jay St.
Ligonier, IN 46767
Email: [email protected]
3-500 available for the 2009 season. Good strong hives.
Fees will vary by crop and Quantity of hives rented.
Will travel all of Indiana and Southern Michigan and Western Ohio.
Thanks. Hope to hear from you soon!
Matt. Rachel, Dylan, and Isabell Green
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Gulf Shores, AL
Currently booking for Northern Illinois, Northern Indiana, Southern Wisconsin and Southern Michigan. Fees vary by crop and location.
Strong hives, experianced beekeeper.
American Polllination
Saint Joseph, MI 49085
[email protected]
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strong hives available for all of 2009 season. serving all of northern indiana and southwest michigan
for more info please call me @ 219 762 5599 thanks ron
Hotts Apiaries LLC.
We offer Honey Bee pollination to farmers throughout parts of the Midwest and all of the East coast.
We have 1200 hives and will deliver on site for pollination. Prices based on acreage and crops we will be pollinating. If you have any questions or want to schedule for the 2011-pollinating season please contact
Mike Hott at 540-383-3323.
Atkins Family Bee Farm - a family business run by Kevin and sons Garrett, Hunter, and Stewart. With lots of help from wife Janet and older daughters Cassidy, Adrienna and Victoria. Plus smiles from younger daughters Geneva and Caledonia
Cecil, Ohio 45821
Phone 419-796-9393
Email: [email protected]
400- 600 hives available for the 2012 blueberry and apple season. Hives will arrive strong, have new queens and bee ready to work for you.
Fees will vary based on distance and quantity of hives rented.
Full payment required at time of delivery, before hives are unloaded.
Will travel all of Northwestern Ohio, Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan. Delivery fee based on mileage number of hives being delivered.
Kevin Atkins
Experienced beekeeper - venturing into pollination services for the first time. I will have 50 to 75 hives available for pollination services in spring and summer of 2014. Located just south of Indianapolis, I'm interested in providing pollination within 50 miles of 46181 at this time.
Ken Hicks
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Jason, Derek and Adam Pratt are Jacksonville natives who share a similar interest: the power of family and love of Jacksonville. But the Pratt Guys are more than just your average brother trio. They are construction craftsmen who build backyard landscapes.
More specifically, the Pratt Guys specialize in building outdoor wood scapes. They started the business in 2004 building everything from pergolas to backyard decks and decorative patios.
Now they're collaborating on a One Spark entry and pursuing $197,604 in crowd-funding to finish setting up a headquarters for their business. They're excited not only about the potential for their project, but also One Spark's potential to infuse the city they love with excitement.
"We are all about the collaborative effort in Jacksonville," Jason said, who also works as a public affairs specialist at Mayo Clinic.
The brothers began construction on their showroom and storefront office building in September of 2013 but had to stop due to lack of funding. They need the showroom to act as a workspace as well, allowing them to build the foundations for their signature pergola structures.
The 9,000-square-foot showroom located off Philips Highway would act as a destination to illustrate what the Pratt Guys do, build livable backyard landscapes where people "enjoy earth," which is also their primary hashtag for social media.
Each of the Pratt brothers possesses an important skill that brought Pratt Guys to life. Jason, a brand consultant, markets the business. Derek and Adam are, respectively, the construction management and planning experts who build the landscapes.
"We set the bar so high for not just quality, not just creativity, but customer service," Jason said.
Pergolas are the signature feature-build of the Pratt Guys. What is a pergola? Pergolas are garden arbors with slanted posts that allow for a mixture of both sunshine and shade. The Pratt Guys feel that pergolas are the best way to "Enjoy Earth from your Backyard," the tagline for the business.
"We grew up building stuff, that's what we're good at," said Derek, the middle brother of the three. Jason is the oldest brother while Adam is the youngest.
Brothers Derek and Adam starting building things in their Jacksonville garage with their father and grandfather at an early age. Throughout high school, both brothers took woodshop classes and grew in their craft.
The Pratt Guys innovate ways to make the wood with which they build best fit their clients' needs. They've even developed a new way to stain the wood they use to build pergolas and other backyard landscapes.
"We took this brand new wood and made it look like it's a hundred years old," said Jason. "We have actually taken, over a year-long time, a lot of trial and error to develop this technique that's completely unique to us."
Working with your brothers would seem like a difficult feat, however it comes naturally for the Pratt brothers. They have always worked collaboratively in expanding their business. Pratt Guys entered the Jacksonville Home and Patio Show in both 2013 and 2014 and won best in show each time as a family.
"My brothers are my best friends," Derek says. "Sometimes we learn to just deal with each other and our strong wills."
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"What do you do?"
It is the quintessential question of unimaginative adults upon first meetings. It is the mark of a society that has completely quaffed the Kool-Aid of materialism, where one's human worth is measured by net worth. What could be more important identifying information than the nature of your job? Certainly not your values, talents, passions, or other non-monetizable attributes.


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Embark on a journey of inner exploration: you can either follow St. Bridget's Trail, part of the St. James' Way network, which takes in Tempzin Monastery, or break away from the pilgrimage at Tempzin Monastery. To hike, pray, sing and dance with like-minded people – or just be together in silence – in an ecumenical group.
The simplicity of the former monastic hospital in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as well as discussions with the people here, will help you on your path of self-discovery. The buildings – the church, which is the largest parish church in the whole of Mecklenburg; the infirmary, now the hospitality building; and the farmhouse, now the community building – are 500 years old. To deal with the influx of pilgrims, in addition to the many people who suffered from a mysterious disease called "ignis sacer", or St. Anthony's fire, a vast three-storey infirmary was constructed in 1496. Around 60 years later, following the Reformation, the monastery diminished in importance. Its bricks were the only thing of interest – they were used to construct Schwerin Palace.
Today, Tempzin Monastery has once again become a place of pilgrimage. A bell in the monastery's church rings four times a day to signal the Liturgy of the Hours. Talks on "spiritual direction" are also given every day, and communion services are held weekly in addition to special services. The annual events calendar includes retreats, monastery/pilgrim festivals at Pentecost, special pilgrimage packages and short pilgrimage routes for groups (available upon request). Those seeking time alone can enter the maze and enjoy a very unique experience on their quest for self-discovery.
Accommodation: the pilgrimage monastery is a self-catering establishment; the kitchen is available to guests. For more information (in German), visit: www.pilger-kloster-tempzin.de
Nearest train stations: Berlin, Schwerin, Rostock
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Around the world, the local church utilizes a wide variety of tools to educate, disciple, and evangelize. The following resources are available to help the local, district, and regional leaders in the development of various discipleship ministries.
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Wesleyan-holiness curriculum is available for all ages through The Foundry Publishing. Click to view the educational materials available, including Sunday School lessons for children, youth, and adults; small group resources; and more.
Second Mile Award
Beginning in 1992, the Second Mile Award was created to acknowledge individuals who have gone beyond the norm of what is expected. These are Sunday School and small group teachers and leaders, pastors, and laity who have given of themselves. Some have been publicly visible and some have been behind the scenes, quietly making a difference in others' lives. They have been Christlike disciples, followers of Jesus, who have helped others become more Christlike. Download the form here.
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The 2019 Total Ministry Brochure is an annual promotional/informational brochure for USA/Canada district distribution at SDMI Conventions and special meetings. Click here to download the brochure.
Download the Ten Commandments poster, available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Korean.
Click here to download this ready-to-duplicate template offering helpful guidelines for class members to use when preparing to invite a friend, colleague, neighbor, or family member to Sunday School.
This downloadable PDF offers a collection of ideas for ways to develop and promote Sunday School and discipleship programs in the local church.
The SDMI logo and official Church of the Nazarene logos are available for download here.


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All students minoring in World Literature are required to demonstrate basic conversational and reading proficiency equivalent to one year (two semesters) of college instruction in a modern language other than English or reading proficiency in a classical language before graduating. Students may fulfill this requirement by successfully completing two semesters of university-level modern or classical language courses. Standardized examination (AP, IB, CLEP) may be used to meet the requirement. (6-8 credit hours)
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'Kick-Ass 2' review: Violence not worth it
Kick-Ass 2
Action comedy. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Directed by Jeff Wadlow. (R. 103 minutes.)
A weird mix of the refreshing and the dispiriting, "Kick-Ass 2" is appealing in its brutal honesty and repellent in its honest brutality. Writer-director Jeff Wadlow establishes a premise and follows it without compromise, but the trail leads to a very ugly place. In the end, the journey wasn't really worth it.
Yet, here and there, there is much to enjoy and even respect. The super heroine Hit Girl (a.k.a. Mindy) is in high school now, trying to navigate the social waters and discover who she is when she's not killing people. The stakes are extreme, but the emotions are familiar, and Chloe Grace Moretz brings out Mindy's doubt and inner conflict.
Clearly, somebody (the director, for one) cared about the performances. For example, there's Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Chris, the mobster's son who longs to be a tough guy. In "Kick-Ass 2," he takes a sick turn in the aftermath of his father's death. He decides he wants to become an evil superhero. He devises a costume made up partly of his late mother's sado-masochistic leather gear and takes on the ridiculous and unprintable name of the Mother-.
The name is perfect for him, exactly what an idiot might think of as cool, but just because Chris really is an idiot doesn't mean that he isn't truly, madly and deeply evil. The result is not only an entertaining character, but one that's practically a statement. Chris is a lightweight and a joke, and yet he's dangerous, and he's genuinely destructive. That's a combination we don't often see in movies, but it's one all too familiar to history.
The title character, Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), is still in high school. He's not tough, but he wants to be, and he hopes Hit Girl will give him lessons. To further his career as a do-gooder, he joins up with a band of would-be superheroes, people as powerless as himself who want to make a difference. The story of "Kick-Ass 2" involves the group of evil superheroes, led by Chris, targeting Kick-Ass' new group for death.
At a certain point, "Kick-Ass 2" must leave the setup stage and start delivering on the action. It has to move from depictions of Mindy's high school angst and Chris' psychotic plans and show the outright war that it keeps promising.
And that's where the movie begins to sour, because all of a sudden a film that's funny in a caustic and outrageous way becomes an action movie that's nasty in an outrageous and violent way. Major characters are stabbed in the neck or run through with a sword, and while, in one sense, the harshness of the comedy is a match for the harshness of the violence, somehow laughing one second and cringing the next doesn't make for a pleasurable experience - especially as it all ultimately lands in a zone of pointlessness.
Jim Carrey, who does nice character work in "Kick-Ass 2" as a former mob enforcer who got religion, has since disowned the movie on moral terms, because of the violence. The violence just might make audiences disown it, too, not because they'll disapprove but simply because they won't want to sit through it.
Mick LaSalle is The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @MickLaSalle


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MONDOVI, Wis., Nov. 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Marten Transport, Ltd. (Nasdaq:MRTN) announced today that the Company is scheduled to present at the Stephens Inc. Fall Investment Conference at The New York Palace Hotel in New York, New York on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 9:30 A.M. Eastern Time.
The slides for this presentation will be available in the Investor Relations section of Marten's Website at http://www.marten.com .
Marten Transport, with headquarters in Mondovi, Wis., is one of the leading temperature-sensitive truckload carriers in the United States. Marten specializes in transporting and distributing food and other consumer-packaged goods that require a temperature-controlled or insulated environment. Marten offers service in the United States, Canada and Mexico, concentrating on expedited movements for high-volume customers. Marten's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol MRTN.
The presentation or discussions at the conference may contain certain statements that may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including Marten's current expectations concerning future results, objectives, plans and payment of dividends. These statements by their nature involve substantial risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Viewers of the conference material should review and consider the various disclosures by the Company in its press releases, stockholder reports, and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Important factors known to Marten that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements are discussed in Item 1A of Marten's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009. Marten undertakes no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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A central figure in the development of the movement known as Minimalism, Carl Andre creates art that involves the symmetrical arrangement of units of basic building materials, which he terms "particles" or "elements." Inspired by the elemental nature of Constantin Brancusi's sculpture from the early part of the twentieth century, Andre has pushed sculpture to a kind of ground zero.
Tau and Threshold (Element Series) of 1971 pays homage to [Brancusi's] Endless Column, while deconstructing sculpture into an even more basic configuration. Andre abandons carving altogether in favor of simply stacking identical wooden units in an I shape. This elegantly primitive configuration—evoking images from Stonehenge to children's building blocks—utilizes what he calls "anaxial symmetry," which involves the absolute interchangeability of standardized units. Andre devised the Element Series in the early 1960s with the suggestion that the same identical units could be used to create different configurations endlessly. . . .Tau and Threshold addresses the architectonic and figurative possibilities of sculptural form in a radically fundamental way.
Eventually Andre rejected the anthropomorphic associations of verticality altogether, creating structures whose primary characteristic is horizontality, exemplified by the artist's arrangements of 3/8-inch-high, one-foot-square metal plates. The most common of these are his well-known "Plains," originally part of the monumental sculpture 37 Pieces of Work, 1969.
Slit, 1981, is one of Andre's more expressive configurations, as well as one of the most revealing in regards to the artist's vision of an expanded space for sculpture. Consisting of parallel strands of steel plates bordering a thin line of small copper units, all of which stretches more than thirty-one feet in length, Slit is decidedly linear and potentially referential. Between 1960 and 1964, Andre worked as a brakeman and conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad, an experience that reinforced not only his interest in industrial materials, but also his interest in sculpture and the perceptual qualities of vanishing points. The miles of tracks and lines of freight cars in flat, expansive landscapes increased his awareness of the relationship between an object and its surrounding space.
Although Slit's linear configuration of parallel steel plates vaguely suggests railroad tracks, Andre sees it more broadly as simply a road, which—like his concept of an axial symmetry and multiple, interchangeable parts—evokes multiple and interchangeable viewpoints. . . . Andre's description [of the work, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110, p. 207] suggests that to journey along Slit is to experience sculpture as a road—to understand it not as a fixed vertical marker or statue but as a guide to a never-attainable horizon. Sculpture is, in other words, an endless road.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 29, 2009) - The ETSU volleyball team is set to head to Florida Gulf Coast and Stetson as the Bucs look to qualify for the Atlantic Sun tournament for the fifth straight year. The Bucs face the Eagles on Friday at 7 p.m. and finish up the road trip on Saturday at 4 p.m. at Stetson.
ETSU (8-15, 6-8 A-Sun) split a pair of matches last weekend against Mercer and Kennesaw State after defeating UNC Asheville 3-2 on the road earlier in the week. The 3-2 loss to the Owls saw a season high 68 points in the fourth set as the Bucs dropped a hard fought 3-2 match. Junior Alysa Long (Romulus, Mich.) has been on fire for the Buccaneers as she is on pace to finish in the top five of the single season hitting records with a .329 hitting percentage this season. Long has posted double-digit kills the last three matches as she had a career-best 15 against KSU.
The Bucs are.1-4 all-time against the Eagles after being swept earlier this season, while ETSU is 8-0 all-time against Stetson with a sweep of the Hatters already this year.
FGCU (12-10, 11-4 A-Sun) comes into the match having dropped three of its last four contests including losses to Florida Atlantic, Jacksonville and Lipscomb. The Eagles are led by Jelena Simic who is fourth in the conference in kills per set averaging 3.49 with 269 kills on the season.
The Hatters (1-21-, 0-15 A-Sun) have struggled in 2009 as they are facing their worst finish in the school's history with only one win on the season. Stephanie Canfield leads Stetson with 132 kills, while Anna Becker has 228 digs.
Live stats are available for both matches, while Friday's contest can be seen live on ASun.TV by clicking the link above. For more information on Buccaneer volleyball and all other athletic news, please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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What's black, yellow, and zebra striped??
My sister's BEDROOM! =)
To make a long story short, her bedroom is right by the bathroom, where a few years ago was a leak under the house. The moisture from that leak caused damage to Michelle's floor. A couple of weeks ago, while moving a chair for her, Danny and my brother realized just how bad it had gotten and decided it was time to replace the floor. The ENTIRE FLOOR.
Anyway, while they had the sub floor down they mentioned it would be the perfect time to paint, so that's just what we did.
I took BEFORE pics, and then couldn't find them ANYWHERE. Later, Jacob got up enough nerve to tell me he thinks they were one his SD card he uses for his trail camera and he deleted them. Oh well.
The walls have had the same wallpaper the entire time I was growing up in that house, and I'm pretty sure it's been there at least since the 60's or 70's. So it had seen better days. But the wallpaper was still in good shape, just kinda worn and dirty, so we just sealed it all in with a oil based primer, and then we were able to paint over the primer with regular water based paint--DANDELION YELLOW-- with no worries about it causing the wall paper to lift.
The ceiling, trim, and doors are all painted in an oil based black primer. And let me tell you, that stuff is SLICK looking. It's MESSY, but VERY glossy!
To finish it off, a zebra print border...err....zebra print GRAY TAPE was added for a border. Who knew they made such thing!!
The guys finished laying the new floor today, added a new black ceiling fan, replaced light switch covers and outlet covers with new BLACK ones, and gave her a brand new black shelf.
I was a bit taken back by her color choices, but just walking in there makes me smile now. Because it IS very cool, and looks JUST like someplace my sister belongs.


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Haley joins Blueshirts as free agentby Staff Writer / New York Rangers
• Defenseman Bickel Stays in Fold
New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has agreed to terms with free agent forward Micheal Haley.
Haley, 26, has registered two goals and one assist, along with 151 penalty minutes in 43 career regular season games over three seasons with the New York Islanders. Last season, he ranked second on the Islanders with seven fighting majors despite only skating in 14 games. He made his NHL debut on April 10, 2010, at New Jersey, and tallied his first NHL point with a goal on February 11, 2011, against Pittsburgh.
Haley spent the majority of last season with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League (AHL), registering 15 goals and 10 assists for 25 points, along with 125 penalty minutes in 51 games. He established AHL career-highs in goals, points, shots on goal (101), and plus/minus rating (plus-four).
|Micheal Haley managed to reach the NHL despite never having been drafted and has seen action in parts of the past three seasons with the Islanders.
Haley tied for fourth on the team in goals, ranked 10th in points and led Bridgeport in penalty minutes. He notched his first career hat trick on February 11 against Springfield, capping off a four-game point streak that began on January 28 at Syracuse (five goals, two assists over the span). Haley posted six multi-point performances, including four multi-goal efforts. In addition, he skated in three playoff contests with Bridgeport.
The 5-11, 205-pounder has skated in 247 career AHL games over five seasons with Bridgeport, registering 40 goals and 33 assists for 73 points, along with 639 penalty minutes. He established a career-high with 10 assists and surpassed the 20-point mark for the first time in his AHL career with 22 points in 2010-11. He ranked ninth on Bridgeport in points, seventh in goals (12) and first in penalty minutes (144) that season.
In 2009-10, he ranked 13th in the AHL with a career-high, 196 penalty minutes. Haley notched a goal while making his AHL debut on December 8, 2007, at Springfield. In addition, he has tallied one goal in 11 career AHL playoff contests with Bridgeport.
The Guelph, Ontario native was originally signed by the NY Islanders as an undrafted free agent on May 19, 2008.


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Explainer: Seven real-life archaeological mysteries
Hollywood's favorite archaeologist has chased around Egypt, India, the Middle East ... and the Amazon as well. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is loosely inspired by a supposed Mesoamerican legend that 13 widely dispersed crystal skulls will yield unprecedented powers when united.
In real life, several purported crystal skulls are housed in museums around the world, though archaeologists doubt their ancient provenance and mystical powers. Instead, these skulls are primarily seen as fakes sold by 19th-century antiquities dealers to feed a market hungry for pre-Hispanic relics. Nevertheless, the archaeological mystery of the crystal skulls lives on. Skull hunters still search for them, and the Maya believe they hold special powers. In this picture, a priest hoists a skull in a ceremony at the Palenque ruins in Mexico.
Click the "Next" arrow above to learn about six more archaeological mysteries.
— John Roach, msnbc.com contributor
Where is the grave of Genghis Khan?
Where is Genghis Khan buried? Nobody knows. The bloody Mongol warrior became famous as the ruler of an empire that eventually stretched from China to Hungary, but he asked to be buried in an unmarked grave. According to legend, anyone who witnessed the burial party en route to the funeral in 1227 was killed, and then the soldiers and servants who attended the funeral were massacred. Thus, the grave site has been one of archaeology's enduring mysteries. But scientists may be closing in on the location at last. In 2004, they unearthed the site of Genghis Khan's 13th-century palace, which is pictured here. Ancient texts suggest the grave itself could be nearby.
What happened on Easter Island?
Hundreds of monolithic statues called Moai, including the ones in this picture, ring remote Easter Island in the South Pacific. They face inland from the shore, presumably keeping watch over ancestral lands. Scientists unraveling the mystery of how the Polynesian settlers moved the statues are also piecing together the tale of the settlers' demise. According to a leading theory, giant palms were hacked down to roll the statues into place beginning in about 1200. As the population swelled, more chiefs requested statues, and more trees were felled. Eventually the island was denuded. Easter Island's environment — and society — collapsed. Other researchers pin the blame on Europeans, disease and rats.
Was Stonehenge a place of healing?
Every year at the summer solstice, thousands of people witness the season's first sunrise at Stonehenge, about 90 miles west of London in the English countryside. Was the monument erected beginning around 3000 B.C. for the secular purpose of marking time? Perhaps, some scholars say. Another prominent theory suggests it was a place of worship. The most recent idea holds that the monument was erected as center of healing. Archaeologists dug at the site for the first time in nearly half a century to get a precise date for Stonehenge's bluestones, which were thought to have healing powers. A close match with the time frame during which archaeologists believe the stones were taken from the Perseli Mountains, 153 miles away, could help confirm the theory.
Why were the Nazca Lines etched?
Hundreds of lines and figures etched into the coastal desert of southern Peru have baffled archaeologists for decades. The Nazca people made the playing-field sized etchings between 200 B.C. and A.D. 700 by removing rust-colored pebbles to reveal the lighter soils beneath. Some are simple shapes reminiscent of geometry class. Others are recognizable animals, such as the hummingbird in this image. But what do they mean? Theories proposed over the years have ranged from religious and astronomical purposes to guideposts of sorts for finding water.
What is China's terracotta army guarding?
In 1974, archaeologists found an army of thousands of terracotta statues standing guard outside the tomb of Qin Shi Huang Di, the ruler who unified China in 221 B.C. The find ranks as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Each of the soldiers has a unique facial expression, and the troops are aligned according to rank in trenchlike corridors, accompanied by horses and chariots.
As impressive as the army may be, scientists suspect that even greater treasure lies within Qin's unexcavated tomb. An account by an ancient court historian suggests that the tomb is full of miniature palaces, rivers of mercury and precious stones to represent the moon and stars. Remote sensing and nearby excavations have lent some credence to the writings.
How were the Egyptian pyramids built?
The Great Pyramid of Giza near Cairo, one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World, retains its world-famous status in a 21st-century list of seven wonders. Its mystique partly rests in just how the 479-foot-tall burial structure was built. Most Egyptologists believe large stones were moved from a quarry and lifted into place, but how? Teams of workers could have dragged the 2.5-ton stones with brute force, or perhaps they rolled them on logs. However they did it, recent research suggests the workers were skilled, not untrained slaves.


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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Kinabatangan's clouded leopards reveal themselves
11:05 PM | Posted by Andy Hearn | Edit Post
Sunda clouded leopards recently photographed in the
Kinabatangan Wildife Sanctaury
After a rather slow start, the number of wild cat photo captures from the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary and surrounding forests are starting to mount up. Our focal species, the Sunda clouded leopard, appears to have been particularly busy along Sabah's largest river since I last wrote, and we have now collected nine photo captures, of five separate events. Careful observation of the photos (see left) reveals that so far we have recorded 1 male, and two females.
A sliver of forest adjacent to the Kinabatangan river. Such narrow
strips of riparian forest may act as corridors for threatened
species such as Bornean felids, and provide essential linkages
for otherwise fragmented blocks of forest
One of these females, CLF1, was also photographed moving through a relatively narrow band (ca. 100 m wide) of riparian forest in Lot 5, which is sandwiched between the river and the surrounding oil palm plantations. This location is close to where we previously observed a flat-headed cat whilst spotlighting (detailed in Hearn et al 2010), and thus provides some of the first evidence that such riparian forest buffers may be utilised by Bornean felids, and may thus provide essential connectivity between otherwise isolated forest fragments along the Kinabatangan. The potential role of forest corridors as a tool for Bornean carnivore conservation is something that we aim to explore further during our new project, the Kinabatangan Carnivore Programme.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Two more cat photos!!
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|Our second flat-headed cat photo. Frustratingly, the other camera failed to
pick up the cat.
Great news... we've got two more wild cat photos from the Kinabatangan! We're still busy surveying the forest and cutting trails in the second of our two sub areas, and so we've only found the time to check the cameras once so far, but members of our team (volunteers from Cardiff University) checked one of the camera sites yesterday and discovered two more cat photos... a leopard cat and yet another flat-headed cat!
Interestingly, both of the new cat photos were from the very same site that we had previously photo-captured the flat-headed – an area of riverine forest, close to the main river, in one of the of the region's larger forest fragments: Lot 5. This bodes well for our planned radio-tracking project (more on this later) as this could well be an excellent site to deploy a live trap. The photo is not ideal, so it is difficult to determine the sex or whether if it is the same individual as the previous photo.
Alas, no Sunda clouded leopard so far, but as I say we've only checked the camera once so far, so fingers crossed.
|A leopard cat. This adaptable species is thought to respond well to habitat disturbance,
and unlike the other 4 Bornean felids can be found residing in oil palm plantations.
It's a little surprising then, that this is our first photo of this species - but again it is early days.
|The Bornean wild cat Team. Right to left: Andy (tingi) Harrison
(volunteer from Cardiff Univ.), Gilmoore (Gil) Bolongon, Saya (me), and Jasmi (Jasz) Joroh.
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Hi Tasha,That's right, I do not advocate teaching the letters by using the alphabet sequence. We know some letters are used more frequently than others, and by taking advantage of that and teaching the highly useful ones first, you are able to help your students read and write more words more quickly. Hope that helps!
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What sounds to teach when?
I'm often asked what the best sequence is for teaching letter sounds. From the work done by the National Reading Panel, we know that systematic and explicit phonics programs teach children letter–sound relationships directly in a well-defined and predetermined sequence.
Most systematic phonics programs sequence phonics generalizations from least difficult to more difficult. Even still, there are lots of programs that teach letter sounds using lots of different sequences.
Richard Venesky (whose book I've written about before) analyzed the distributions of single consonant units, based on a corpus of almost 20,000 words.
The results might shed some light on what sounds to teach when. In the initial position, are the most frequently occurring single-letter units. From this list, is not commonly taught early on because it can make two sounds (as in city and cat).
Other consonants and consonant units occur much less frequently, particularly in the initial position. These include . Those consonant units should probably not be among the first sounds a program teaches.
Lots of programs start with consonants /b,m,r,s,t/ and the short vowel /a/, thus enabling lots of words like bat, mat, rat, and sat. A guiding principle for letter–sound sequence should be that the sequence enables children to read a large number of words using just a few sounds.
For readers who work with a sequence that makes sense and is working, I'd love to hear more about it. Or if you work with one that has you scratching your head, I'd love to hear about that too!


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Just when I think I've got a grip (finally!) on my anxiety, and I'm around nice, normal-ish people who talk about nice, normal-ish things, and the most stressful part of my day is logging onto our temperamental server, reality smacks me upside the head like a wet fish.
Today was the tenth anniversary of the London bombings. Ten years to the day danger and terror irrevocably brushed my life. It was a very surreal and anxiety-ratcheting experience passing two of the bombed stations on my commute this morning. There was a minute of silence at 08:50, and there were an equal number of people observing the silence as not. London's population is constantly in flux, and there are people living here today who weren't here ten years ago, who have no memories of how the streets of the capital fell silent, who have no memory of calling friends and family in a blind panic, trying to make sure loved ones were OK.
My first memory of the day was a 'power surge' in the tunnel, being stuck in the dark for ages, and then being evacuated off the train at the next station with no information forthcoming. It was hot and sticky and I had to schlep myself to work along with hundreds of other commuters, shoving on the pavement for some space. I remember walking into the office and a colleague asking me where my fiancé was. Schvitzing and grumpy, I didn't know why she was so persistent, until she pointed me to the BBC news, and I realised his station was bombed. I couldn't reach him, and called every other number in his office till I found someone who was fairly confident they had seen him that morning. We were four weeks off our wedding, and in a vanity dash, instead of taking the Tube, he walked to work that morning to shift some weight, and was thus safe. What are the odds?
I remember walking two hours to get home that afternoon, surrounded by thousands of other people doing the same. No one was talking. We had no mobile service, so no one touched their phones. There was an unreality about the whole day, almost as though we would wake up the next day and realise we had all shared a dystopian experience of epic proportions. That the pictures we had seen were just a drill. A Met Police exercise. Anything BUT what it was.
But the nightmare stretched into days and weeks for a few of us trying to track down loved ones and friends. I lost a friend & colleague that day, but we didn't have it confirmed until days and a DNA test later.
I didn't want to get back on the Tube the next day, but I did. In the aftermath, I toyed around with postponing the wedding, but we didn't. We told our friends there would be no hard feelings if they re-thought travel plans. They didn't; everyone invited showed up four weeks later, to celebrate with us. Every little bit of normality felt like an act of defiance, a spitting in the eye of the four madmen and their groomers.
Ten years later, I'm still uncomfortable taking public transport. My natural anxious state means I am always hyper-vigilant and hyper-aware every time I board a train, especially if I have my daughter with me. I text my husband and the babysitter every time I leave work, so someone knows where I am and which route I'm taking. As one person said at the memorial service today, we're not wondering if another attack will happen, but when, because that's the world we live in. The autopsies of the Sousse slain are still being conducted two roads down from my house, the wreaths from their caskets on the pavement. That's our reality.
However, none of this tarnishes my love for my adopted hometown. London has a gritty survival instinct under its polished veneer, and I am madly proud to be a Londoner again. London survived the Blitz, the IRA bombs, 7/7 and probably anything else most fanatic lunatics would throw at it. The words of William Ernest Henley capture this spirit best:
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears, Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.


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Indianapolis Archbishop Buechlein Retires Early
Auxiliary Bishop Christopher Coyne has been named by Pope Benedict as apostolic administrator until a new archbishop is appointed.
INDIANAPOLIS (EWTN News/CNA)—Today Pope Benedict XVI accepted the early resignation of Archbishop Daniel Buechlein of Indianapolis due to health issues. The archbishop's retirement was announced on Sept. 21 and is effective immediately.
"It has been a joy for me to serve as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis for the past 20 years. I want to thank all of the clergy, religious, archdiocesan staff and laypeople for the support you have given me over the years," Archbishop Buechlein said in a Sept. 21 statement from the archdiocese.
"You truly have been a blessing to me. With your help and the help of God, we have been able to accomplish much."
The archbishop requested retirement earlier this year. At age 73, he is two years away from the normal retirement age for bishops. However, he has suffered from numerous health problems in recent years, including a mild stroke, a battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, shoulder-replacement surgery and the removal of a benign stomach tumor.
Bishop Christopher Coyne, auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, has been named by Pope Benedict as apostolic administrator until a new archbishop is appointed. Bishop Coyne was ordained to assist Archbishop Buechlein as his auxiliary bishop in March 2011.
Archbishop Buechlein was born on April 20, 1938, in Jasper, Ind. In 1963, he took solemn vows as a Benedictine monk, and the next year, he was ordained a priest.
In 1987, he was appointed bishop of Memphis, Tenn., and in 1992, he was appointed archbishop of Indianapolis by Pope John Paul II.
During his time in Indianapolis, he has served in various positions, including as a consultor to the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy and co-moderator of the Disciples of Christ-Roman Catholic International Dialogue.
According to the archdiocese, Archbishop Buechlein plans to spend his retirement in southern Indiana at St. Meinrad Archabbey. He intends to return to the community where he made his solemn profession as a Benedictine monk almost 50 years ago.


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Miguel Cabrera hobbled through a stop sign, gently colliding with the catcher for an easy out at home.
Anibal Sanchez showed none of his no-hit stuff, Detroit's first shaky outing from its rotation in the AL championship series.
Miguel Cabrera hobbled through a stop sign, gently colliding with the catcher for an easy out at home.
Anibal Sanchez showed none of his no-hit stuff, Detroit's first shaky outing from its rotation in the AL championship series.
And yet the Comerica Park crowd had a chance to roar Thursday night when Prince Fielder came to the plate in the fifth and seventh innings. But each time, Fielder failed to come through and cheers quickly turned to jeers for the slumping slugger.
Fielder extended his postseason drought without an RBI to a career-long 65 at-bats and that helped Boston hold on for a 4-3 win and a 3-2 series lead that put the Tigers on the brink of elimination.
"He's had some good at-bats, doesn't have a lot to show for it, and some not so good at-bats," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "I still feel good something big could happen at any time."
The rotund first baseman doesn't deserve all the blame, but he's going to get a lot of it — especially if Detroit doesn't win the last two games in the best-of-seven series.
Tigers owner Mike Ilitch gave his OK to sign Fielder to a $214 million, nine-year deal last year to replace the then-injured Victor Martinez, expecting him to produce at the plate.
Fielder simply has not, often swinging early in counts for weak grounders that make fans in the Motor City groan.
He hasn't driven in a run during the postseason in 17-plus games since the opener of the 2012 ALCS against the New York Yankees. The longest RBI drought of his career during the regular season was with the Milwaukee Brewers during a 44 at-bat skid in 2008, according to STATS.
That from a five-time All-Star who's averaged 111 RBIs in his last seven seasons.
Fielder, though, wasn't Detroit's only problem in its third one-loss loss of the series, a defeat that put Boston within one win of the World Series.
Cabrera, who can barely run, in part because of a lingering groin injury, wrecked the Tigers' first chance to score in Game 5.
He may have seen third base coach Tom Brookens wave him home initially as he was running toward third when Jhonny Peralta singled with two outs in the first. But Cabrera didn't see, or he simply ignored, Brookens when he sent both arms up in the air to signal for him to stop and load the bases.
Red Sox left fielder Jonny Gomes made an accurate throw to catcher David Ross, who tagged out Cabrera without having to brace himself to take a huge hit from the 6-foot-4, 240-pound reigning AL MVP.
After Mike Napoli hit one of the most impressive homers over the center field wall in Comerica Park history in the second inning for the game's first run, Cabrera couldn't field Gomes' grounder that went off the heel of his glove at third base. The error extended the inning, helping Boston take a 3-0 lead.
Down 4-0, Cabrera hit an RBI single in the fifth. Fielder was up next and grounded out to end the inning.
Cabrera had a chance in the seventh, but grounded into a double play with runners at the corners. Fielder then grounded out again to finish the inning.
Sanchez struggled to pitch anything like he did in the series opener when he didn't give up a hit and struck out 12 over six innings, helping the Tigers win 1-0 for the only lead they've had in the series.
Now, it will be up to 21-game winner Max Scherzer to extend the series by winning Game 6 on Saturday afternoon in Boston to give Justin Verlander a shot to win a second decisive game this postseason.


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- 8 cups 1 1/2-inch cubes egg bread with crust (from one 16-ounce loaf)
- 2 1/4 cups chopped pitted Medjool dates (about 12 ounces)
- 1/2 cup sliced almonds
- 6 large eggs
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 cup baker's sugar (superfine sugar) or regular sugar
- 3 1/2 cups half and half
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon (generous) ground nutmeg
- Powdered sugar
- Amaretto Zabaglione
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Arrange bread cubes in single layer on rimmed baking sheet. Let stand at room temperature to dry overnight.
Butter 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish. Transfer bread cubes to prepared dish. Mix dates and almonds in medium bowl. Sprinkle date mixture over bread and toss to distribute evenly. Using electric mixer, beat eggs and egg yolks in large bowl until frothy. Add 1 cup sugar and beat until mixture thickens and is pale yellow, about 5 minutes. Add half and half, vanilla, and nutmeg; beat just until blended. DO AHEAD Bread mixture and custard can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Let bread mixture stand uncovered at room temperature. Chill custard; rewhisk before continuing.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Pour custard over bread mixture, then press lightly on bread with rubber spatula to submerge. Let stand 15 minutes, occasionally pressing lightly on bread to submerge.
Bake bread pudding 25 minutes. Using large spoon, press bread down, allowing custard in dish to rise to surface. Spoon custard evenly over bread mixture. Continue to bake pudding until knife inserted into center of custard comes out clean, about 20 minutes longer.
Remove bread pudding from oven and let stand 10 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve warm with warm or chilled Amaretto Zabaglione.


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After no local college or high school player was selected in the 2014 NBA Draft, a few have received another opportunity to pursue a possible NBA future.
Former City College standout CJ Fair will get his chance with the Dallas Mavericks in the Summer League. According to the Syracuse Post-Standard, the former Syracuse star's camp believed the Mavs would draft him in the second round but traded away their picks earlier in the week to re-acquire center Tyson Chandler.
Former Walbrook star Roscoe Smith has found a Summer League spot with the Los Angeles Lakers, according to SNY.tv. Smith finished his college career at UNLV after winning a national championship at UConn.
Davon Usher will get his opportunity with the Golden State Warriors in Summer League play according to the Bay Area News Group. Usher had a stellar career at Baltimore's Digital Harbor High School before playing collegiately at Delaware.
The Miami Heat and Denver Nuggets will both give former Towson University forward Jerrelle Benimon a chance to participate in Summer League play. Benimon was a two-time CAA Player of the Year after transferring to Towson from Georgetown.
To this point, there is nothing known about the chances of former Aberdeen star Devon Saddler (Delaware) or former Patterson star Aquille Carr (NBA D-League Delaware 87'ers) getting an opportunity to play in Summer League.


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I have a problem saving game in Gobliins 2 and loading in Gobliiins on N900. "Enter" button doesn't seem to work. When I'm choosing Save button in the menu, game asks me to enter the name of the save game. I'm entering the name but I can't confirm it, because Enter is not working. I've tried pressing all buttons, but nothing helps
Same issue with loading in first Goblins, I can't confirm the code to load.
All other buttons are working.
Can anyone help me with this?
In other games (like Kyrandia) Enter is working correctly.
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But for Ohio State, I would have never been able to go to college. I love Ohio State, and all the good it does. I hope this gift stimulates those who have received an education here, or been touched by this remarkable institution, to think about how they, too, can give back. Les Wexner, OSU Class of '59
As you may have heard, Les Wexner, Chairman and CEO of the Limited Brands, just announced a donation of $100 million to The Ohio State University, the largest gift given in Ohio State's history. Hear what President E. Gordon Gee and Les Wexner have to say about this "transformational moment."
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I'm now thinking that I'd love a little cobalt blue in our room, but what? Maybe
I can find a frame or something. Why is this so hard? I feel stuck. Well, I also
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b. Postpaid customers need to ensure roaming is enabled on account.
c. Ensure data while roaming is enabled (available in phone settings).
d. Check APN in settings to ensure correct based on market.
e. Select Manual update and choose partner if automatic selection is not completed.
f. Ensure phone is compatible – triband/quadband phone.
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